Information and communication technologies bring together methods of organizing complex activities while questioning traditional ways of working, inviting to use complex approaches when it comes to design process, based on the fact that the media has the potential to alter the perceptions of whole factors involved. It enables the creation of networks, the rethinking of working methods, allowing an even more effective interaction between different actors and their activities. The starting point for the experimental exercise “Abrigo Mínimo” was to discuss a different approach of understanding the way architectural student design by including questions of context. It is proposed that, to understand the design process complexity, they should have a vision of site, subjects and design interrelations as processes rather than products and a conception of it as fields of relations rather than as arrangements of objects. This posture would change radically the students’ way of designing, providing a kind of orientation to act. [Full paper in Portuguese]